You mean the menu picture? Because the TV picture wouldn't change - it's digital, and was digital.

There was already a lengthy discussion about this, and unfortunately that's not actually the case.

In a shootout of many top end BD players it was discussed that a large number of things in the "digital" signal affected the picture quality such as how the player handled things like color decoder information.

Maybe down the line when manufacturers adhere 100% to format specifications what you said will be correct. Today it's a bit of a crap shoot.

So, it is entirely possible that the perceived PQ of the Roamio is different than of other TiVo models.

Read through a bunch of pages here but didn't find this discussed anywhere (and the search function keeps giving me the under two works error message even though I'm obviously searching for more than two words...)

How do you Stop a recorded show during playback (as opposed to Pause) so that you are taken back to that show's recorded info screen?

Read through a bunch of pages here but didn't find this discussed anywhere (and the search function keeps giving me the under two works error message even though I'm obviously searching for more than two words...)

How do you Stop a recorded show during playback (as opposed to Pause) so that you are taken back to that show's recorded info screen?

Thanks. I see I have to push Pause first, otherwise it keeps playing in the corner window which feels like strange default behavior but...okay I guess.

You can disable that little window completely in the Settings section. Or you can disable it temporarily by pressing the Slow button. If you do either then you don't have to pause first, it'll pause automatically.

It's funny how quickly you become use to the speed. Last night I had to use my wife's Premiere for something and it was an exercise in frustration. I always thought my Premiere was slow, but it was usable. Now I find it excruciating to use. First world problems.

You can disable that little window completely in the Settings section. Or you can disable it temporarily by pressing the Slow button. If you do either then you don't have to pause first, it'll pause automatically.

Thanks. When you disable it completely does it actually pause the recording when you hit the L arrow, or does it continue to play behind the scenes? I assume the former but guess I could check.

I'd kind of miss the window at other times, in the menus, and so forth. But I guess I could get used to it.

Took then plunge, man was it hard with a s3 and HD with lifetime running just fine. Hope to sell the HD on Craig's but TiVo market in seattle on there has been dead last 2 weeks .... May go to $225 on it.
All is good but looks like my mini is broken first day out the box. It was going through setup and hanging on the DVR selection screen. After I made a new call on the roamio I come back to see the mini stuck on the start up screen and it flickers every 4 secs stuck on it.Bumned the mini has lifetime and needs to go back to best buy.

On demand needs to be fixed with xfinity.
The roamio is a thing of beauty, it will be a few days to digest the $880.... I was an s3 first day owner so I know it will be fine. That thing is going almost 6 years strong.

I am digging the 6 tuners, I am a huge user of the 30min buffer and love jumping around blazing through content.

Update: took 25 mins but got lifetime on the mini refunded and will pick up another one today.

Picked up another mini now up and running on Moca. I am surprised because I have 3 splitters to this line and it works perfect. No filters nothing, very surprised. Plan to expand for sure in the future.

Also I figured out if I want to watch 2 shows at once on the mini just hit record (assuming no conflicts) and I can watch live tv and the show recording back and forth. I enjoy this type of watching and switch during commercials or pause points. Very cool!

The 30 second skip is off or the series 3 is off. As a football watcher 30 sec skip always took me to the next play before the snap. On the roamio it was off, tested same game on the s3 and was right on.

The 30sec skip mode where it shows the content is a bummer, but I know why they had to do it.

The Romeo lost connectivity yesterday twice . . .again. The Mini stopped connecting during the football game. The Stream continues to provide no functionality.

I finally gave up. After two weeks working with TIVO tech support I cancelled my service and am shipping all the hardware back to TIVO for a refund.

The software does not work. Period. End of sentence.

I refuse to pay to be a beta tester for their new systems.

Too bad, the concept is great. The implementation, at least for me, is very poor.

Sorry you had issues but the Roamio and Minis work great here. The only issue I ran into was with a green switch my Roamio Pro was connected to. Which was easily rectified by replacing it with a non-green switch.

I think you would find that most would disagree with your blog comment that the interface on the TiVo Roamio looks "almost the same" as the interface on TiVos from seven years ago.

I don't know much about the Verizon interface, perhaps it's truly awesome. What I do know is that many who are devoted fans of TiVo appreciate some of the features that other DVRs don't do, such as suggestions, wish lists, unified search, etc.

If none of that matters, then for most consumers it will be most cost effective to simply go with whatever their cable provider offers by way of rental equipment.

I quickly glanced through your blog post and you have some mistakes in there. One, there is a way to go back to full screen once the video is in the window. It's the zoom button. Works just fine. Second, I'm pretty sure the video window works fine when you're watching a recording. It shouldn't switch to Live TV. If you're watching a recording and you press the Tivo button the video window will keep your recording. THen just press the zoom button to go back to your recording. Also, the pause button works as the stop button. Just pause the show and go where ever you want to go on the UI. No need for a stop button. Also switching tuners works much better on the Tivo as you can pause live tuners and switch back and forth which is very helpful for watching sports. Another Tivo improvement are the shortcuts on the remote (Tivo and 2 for the to do list, Tivo and Tivo again for the My shows list...). I'm sure there are many more improvements in the Tivo UI over the Fios DVR but I don't have the time now to go through them all. You'll probably learn them in time as you get used to the UI.

Like all products that you use for the first time, you need a little time to get used to it. But I feel that once you get used to it, you'll enjoy the Tivo much more than the Fios DVR.

My Mom has a Fios DVR and I've found it to be pretty terrible. Just kind of clunky and non-intuitive. It's your classic basic cable DVR but with whole home streaming. One thing that really pissed me off was when watching the Super Bowl a few years ago. We were recording the game and watching it about 20 minutes behind. When the recording ended, instead of just continuing the game from the point where the recording ended on the live buffer, it jumped to the current live TV point. Needless to say that it spoiled the end of the Super Bowl. Also, earlier we had issues where the DVR wasn't saving the pause point and was resuming the recording from the beginning every time we restarted the recording. Was very annoying.

I quickly glanced through your blog post and you have some mistakes in there. One, there is a way to go back to full screen once the video is in the window. It's the zoom button. Works just fine. Second, I'm pretty sure the video window works fine when you're watching a recording. It shouldn't switch to Live TV. If you're watching a recording and you press the Tivo button the video window will keep your recording. THen just press the zoom button to go back to your recording. Also, the pause button works as the stop button. Just pause the show and go where ever you want to go on the UI. No need for a stop button. Also switching tuners works much better on the Tivo as you can pause live tuners and switch back and forth which is very helpful for watching sports. Another Tivo improvement are the shortcuts on the remote (Tivo and 2 for the to do list, Tivo and Tivo again for the My shows list...). I'm sure there are many more improvements in the Tivo UI over the Fios DVR but I don't have the time now to go through them all. You'll probably learn them in time as you get used to the UI.

Like all products that you use for the first time, you need a little time to get used to it. But I feel that once you get used to it, you'll enjoy the Tivo much more than the Fios DVR.

My Mom has a Fios DVR and I've found it to be pretty terrible. Just kind of clunky and non-intuitive. It's your classic basic cable DVR but with whole home streaming. One thing that really pissed me off was when watching the Super Bowl a few years ago. We were recording the game and watching it about 20 minutes behind. When the recording ended, instead of just continuing the game from the point where the recording ended on the live buffer, it jumped to the current live TV point. Needless to say that it spoiled the end of the Super Bowl. Also, earlier we had issues where the DVR wasn't saving the pause point and was resuming the recording from the beginning every time we restarted the recording. Was very annoying.

I just tested this again; watch on basic, play a show recorded on the pro, press TiVo, the feed in the embedded window switches to live TV, not the show I was watching.

I agree the FiOS DVR used to be pretty awful two years ago, but the current version does work really well, and I find the menu system very intuitive, very responsive, and HD all the time.

I'm sure the TiVo will grow on me, but other than more tuners and more storage, I don't think the Roamio is really that impressive.

I just tested this again; watch on basic, play a show recorded on the pro, press TiVo, the feed in the embedded window switches to live TV, not the show I was watching.

I agree the FiOS DVR used to be pretty awful two years ago, but the current version does work really well, and I find the menu system very intuitive, very responsive, and HD all the time.

I'm sure the TiVo will grow on me, but other than more tuners and more storage, I don't think the Roamio is really that impressive.

P.

It could be that happens when you watch a show from a different DVR. I don't believe it acts like that when watching a recording from that same DVR.

I tihnk the Tivo stuff will grow on you. THings like the unified search and the episode guides have been very helpful to me (though they really need to add Amazon Prime streaming) not to mention the very useful app, ios streaming, and computer archiving/transferring options.

Not happy - When i watch netflix, it reboots the tivo occasionally. i never had a premiere, but this has happened 3 times in the last 2 days. i have it hard wired.

should i return it and go back to using my series 3? (HD XL?)

Earlier on there was an issue with 1080p/24 causing Netflix reboots but I thought the 1st Roamio software update was supposed to address that. But if you do have 1080p/24 output enabled in TiVo Video settings you may try turning it off for now to see if it helps. I haven't used Netflix much lately but so far haven't suffered any reboots for my Roamio when I did use it.